Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.3935/zpfz.71.2.01
Croatia in a Conflicting Cohabitation (Milanović – Plenković)
Biljana Kostadinov
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The unique Croatian experience with cohabitation shows that a high-intensity conflict between the Prime Minister and the President of the Republic is not exclusively waged in the area of everyday politics, and that there is also a desire to alter the constitutional prerogatives of the participants (the constitutional “rules of war”). Durability of the Constitution and its division of powers between the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister and the Croatian Parliament is afforded lesser weight and protection. Croatia has discarded the trusted waymark preserving the Croatian constitutional system, the instruction from the era of the first French cohabitation during the Fifth Republic (1986-1988), which pleads for a: “Return to the Constitution, only the Constitution and nothing but the Constitution”. The constitutional system is gridlocked.
Keywords
cohabitation; les „actes de Gouvernement“; powers of appointment; Constitutional Court; diplomacy; President of the Republic’s suspensive veto power; Foreign Affairs Council
Hrčak ID:
259348
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Publication date:
21.6.2021.
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